Mexican candies
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »My Spanish teacher, Samantha who has finished her third year of university training to be a psychologist but needs to pass the Level 4 English exam to begin her final year, has me reading a children's book about Mexican ...
Peanut Pet Shelter Clean Up Day, Saturday, January 24
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Adventures, Daily Life | No Comments »The Clean Up, which Cathy Todhunter organized, had been scheduled a week earlier, but recent rain storms flooded the Shelter. This day was perfect, warm but not hot and low humidity. Jim went over about noon; my daughter, Dorsche, who ...
Benefit for Peanut Pet Shelter
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »Friday, December 12, was the Peanut Pet Shelter Benefit Raffle here in Playa. Chris Bolister played guitar all night long to everyone's delight, it is good to have him back in town. Tickets were each 50 pesos and prize winners ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »Last Friday was the national day for celebrating the Virgin of Guadalupe, the saint of Mexico. Children dressed in traditional worker costumes (and a few others) walked the pedestrian roadway in Playa del Carmen carrying balloons decorated with the Virgin ...
Brown rice for Angel Notion
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »I did find brown rice in bulk at DAC (the local vegetable market) and decided to cook it at home on my stove which works well. I washed the rice in a bowl, letting the chaff rinse off, then toasted ...
Dia de los Muertos
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life, Fiestas | No Comments »Thursday afternoon I went to the local vegetable market (DAC) to get brown rice and veggies that I was going to cook Friday at the Diabetes Clinic. I was successful finding all I needed and on the way out I ...
Rain, rain, rain and yoga
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »I am learning to be careful what I pray for. After months of extreme heat, I wished and hoped and prayed for rain, and now it has arrived, days and weeks of it. Yesterday in a bit of decided devotion, I ...
Noni fruit
Monday, October 20th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »I was introduced to Noni fruit in the garden at Angel Notion where the Diabetes Clinic takes place. Christina, who helps me in the kitchen, is the gardener. She picked a couple of these wonders for me, saying they were ...
Bird Sanctuary visit
Sunday, October 19th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »While Jim watched football games and horse races this afternoon at Caliente, near the ferry dock in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, I went to the bird sanctuary, Xaman Ha, in Playacar. It has been raining pretty hard for days so ...
Foot Exfoliation in Cenote
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Daily Life | No Comments »Last week we spent an afternoon at a local cenote. I remembered, at a previous visit, watching a very pregnant young woman resting on a shelf of white limestone barely submerged in the cool water. So, since I was nursing ...